Design as an Attitude
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What is design’s role in our lives today? How will it evolve in the future? How can design help us address the tumultuous changes we now face? Award-winning design critic Alice Rawsthorn delved into these key themes to write her latest book, Design as an Attitude. From the deepening environmental and refugee crises to the rise of inequality, intolerance, and prejudice to the torrent of ever more powerful, sometimes ominous advances in science and technology, design is responding to an age of intensity. Will it help save us? Stick around after the event for a book signing with Alice Rawsthorn.
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